{"id":11567,"date":"2023-11-08T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T16:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11567"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:58:15","slug":"david-sinclair-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/david-sinclair-2\/","title":{"rendered":"David Sinclair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        David Sinclair\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>David Sinclair was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, at the 3:30 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 4, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of experimental sub-atomic physics and for his leading role as founding director of SNOLAB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/David-Sinclair-240x289.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/David-Sinclair-240x289.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/David-Sinclair-160x192.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/David-Sinclair-200x240.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/David-Sinclair.png 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinclair studied physics as an undergraduate and completed a PhD in nuclear physics at Queen\u2019s University. He did post-doctoral work at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen before becoming a University Lecturer in the Department of Nuclear Physics at Oxford University and an Official Fellow of St. Anne\u2019s College. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He returned to Canada to play a lead role as Deputy Director and Associate Director (Science) in the development of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), while working at Carleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinclair\u2019s research has focused on studies of neutrinos, the most abundant particle with mass in the universe but the least understood.&nbsp; Work at the SNO showed, for the first time, that neutrinos have a non-zero mass and that they have unusual properties that may help to explain some of the cosmological mysteries surrounding the Big Bang. These results led to the awarding of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. Following the completion of the SNO, Sinclair directed the construction of a larger laboratory to study neutrinos and search for the elusive dark matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His work has been honoured with the inaugural Gold Medal for Research Achievement at Carleton (2006), the NSERC Polanyi Award for Research (2007), the Erich Vogt TRIUMF CAP Medal for Subatomic Physics (2011), an honorary of Doctor of Science from Queen\u2019s University (2012) and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015). Sinclair was named a Davidson Dunton Research lecturer (2003), elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2004), named chancellor\u2019s professor at Carleton (2009) and is an officer of the Order of Canada (2018).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VvC2wZbbQ1s\">Watch the award ceremony of David Sinclair<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Sinclair was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, at the 3:30 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 4, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of experimental sub-atomic physics and for his leading role as founding director of SNOLAB. Sinclair studied physics as an undergraduate and completed a PhD in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11567","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11569,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11567\/revisions\/11569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}